2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2006 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held from 15 August to 20 August at the Chaoyang Sports Centre in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China.

2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Host city Beijing, China
Nations participating176
Athletes participating1350
Events44
Dates15–20 August
Main venueChaoyang Sports Centre

The Championships were dominated by the host nation China, and Kenya. The United States showed a near complete domination in the relay events. Estonia won four gold medals; their first medals ever at the World Junior Championships.

Results

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
 Great Britain
10.37 SB Justyn Warner
 Canada
10.39 Yohan Blake
 Jamaica
10.42
Remaldo Rose, bronze medalist in 2004, finished fourth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Liberia, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, Serbia, Kiribati and the Northern Mariana Islands.
200 metres
Marek Niit
 Estonia
20.96 NJ Bryan Barnett
 Canada
21.00 Alexander Nelson
 Great Britain
21.14
The original winner, Dmytro Ostrovsky of Ukraine, was disqualified for stepping in another lane. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Gibraltar and Ecuador.
400 metres
Renny Quow
 Trinidad and Tobago
45.74 PB Justin Oliver
 United States
45.78 PB Martyn Rooney
 Great Britain
45.87
800 metres
David Rudisha
 Kenya
1:47.40 Jackson Kivuna
 Kenya
1:47.64 Abraham Chepkirwok
 Uganda
1:47.79
1500 metres
Remmy Ndiwa
 Kenya
3:40.44 SB Abdalaati Iguider
 Morocco
3:40.73 Belal Mansoor Ali
 Bahrain
3:41.36
Iguider was the reigning champion and championship record holder. Tsegai Tewelde of Eritrea, who finished fifth, established national junior records twice during the competition.
5000 metres
Tariku Bekele
 Ethiopia
13:31.34 Abreham Cherkos
 Ethiopia
13:35.95 Joseph Ebuya
 Kenya
13:42.93
Tariku Bekele, the younger brother of World and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, won a bronze medal in 2004. Ebuya already had a silver medal from the 10 000 m.
10,000 metres
Ibrahim Jeilan
 Ethiopia
28:53.29 Joseph Ebuya
 Kenya
28:53.46 PB Aadam Ismaeel Khamis
 Bahrain
28:54.30 NJ
National junior records were also established for Eritrea and Burundi.
110 metres hurdles 99.0 cm
Artur Noga
 Poland
13.23 CR Samuel Coco-Viloin
 France
13.35 NJ Konstadinos Douvalidis
 Greece
13.39 NJ
The hurdle height had been reduced from 106.7 cm to 99.0 cm, thus allowing championship records in all three rounds of the competition. The world's fastest juniors in 2006, Dennis Martin and Darius Reed of the United States, failed to succeed.
400 metres hurdles
Chris Carter
 United States
50.08 Bandar Sharahili
 Saudi Arabia
50.34 PB Stanislav Melnykov
 Ukraine
50.43 PB
Carter took the only individual gold medal for the United States. During the competition, national junior records were set for Togo and the Netherlands.
3000 metres steeplechase
Willy Komen
 Kenya
8:14.00 CR Bisluke Kiplagat
 Kenya
8:18.11 PB Abdelghani Aït Bahmad
 Morocco
8:20.05 NJ
Komen beat the previous championship record by 2.34 seconds. Tareq Mubarak Taher of Bahrain originally finished second, but was disqualified for age cheating.[1]
10,000 metres walk
Bo Xiangdong
 China
42:50.26 Huang Zhengyu
 China
43:13.29 PB Yusuke Suzuki
 Japan
43:45.62
4 × 100 metres relay
 Jamaica
Winston Barnes
Remaldo Rose
Cawayne Jervis
Yohan Blake
39.05 WJL  United States
Evander Wells
Gordon McKenzie
Willie Perry
Brandon Myers
39.21 SB  Great Britain
Rion Pierre
Alexander Nelson
Wade Bennett-Jackson
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
39.24 SB
National junior records for Canada, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei and Singapore in the initial heats. Germany and Nigeria fumbled in the final and did not finish; however, neither were ever in medal position.
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States
Quentin Summers
Justin Oliver
Bryshon Nellum
Chris Carter
3:03.76 WJL  Russia
Maksim Dyldin
Dmitriy Buryak
Vyacheslav Sakaev
Anton Kokorin
3:05.13 NJ  Great Britain
Chris Clarke
Grant Baker
Kris Robertson
Martyn Rooney
3:05.49 SB
Kenya, in fourth set a national junior record of 3:05.54, with 800 metres medalists Kivuna and Rudisha on the last two laps, thereby improving their own record from the heats. Belgium and Czech Republic too set new NJs in the heats.
High jump
Huang Haiqiang
 China
2.32 WJL Niki Palli
 Israel
2.29 Bohdan Bondarenko
 Ukraine
2.26 PB
Huang, helped by an enthusiastic home crowd, improved his personal best by 4 cm to overcome pre-event favorite Palli. Oleksandr Nartov of Ukraine, a medal prospect with a personal best of 2.26 m, exited at 2.10 in the qualification round.
Pole vault
Germán Chiaraviglio
 Argentina
5.71 CR Yang Yansheng
 China
5.54 PB Leonid Kivalov
 Russia
5.42
Chiaraviglio, the reigning silver medalist, improved the championship record by 6 cm. The athletes who placed from 4th to 9th all failed to clear 5.36 m.
Long jump
Robert Crowther
 Australia
8.00 AJ Antone Belt
 United States
7.95 PB Zhang Xiaoyi
 China
7.86
Zhang was the world junior leader in 2006 with 8.17 metres. Mohammad Arzandeh of Iran, who set a national record, briefly held a medal position. Medal contenders such as Konstantin Safronov and Chris Noffke failed to qualify for the final.
Triple jump
Benjamin Compaoré
 France
16.61 WJL Hugo Chila
 Ecuador
16.49 Zhong Minwei
 China
16.29
Shot put 6 kg
Margus Hunt
 Estonia
20.53 WJL Mostafa Abdul El-Moaty
 Egypt
20.14 Guo Yanxiang
 China
19.97
Discus throw gold medalist Hunt emerged as a complete surprise, having a personal best of 18.61 metres before the competition. He became the first athlete to win the gold both in shot and discus, after Rutger Smith won a gold and a bronze in 2000. Pre-event favorites such as Carlos Véliz, Sourabh Vij and Jan Petrus Hoffman all failed to break the 20-metre barrier in the final. National records were established for Kuwait and Uzbekistan.
Discus throw 1.75 kg
Margus Hunt
 Estonia
67.32 WJL Mohammad Samimi
 Iran
63.00 NJ Martin Wierig
 Germany
62.17 PB
Hunt had established a new world junior record of 66.35 metres at 9:00 AM on the opening day. In the final, he improved it to 66.68 and then 67.32. It was the first WJC gold medal for Estonia. With 63.00 m in the final round, Samimi skipped from fourth to second, improving the result of Ehsan Haddadi who won a gold medal for Iran with 62.14 m in 2004. The qualification round saw a national junior record for Samoa.
Hammer throw 6 kg
Yevgeniy Aydamirov
 Russia
78.42 CR Kristóf Németh
 Hungary
78.39 Marcel Lomnický
 Slovakia
77.06 NJ
In the qualification round Yury Shayunou of Belarus set a new championship record with 76.76 metres, beating 76.43 m from 2002. Aydamirov however, with a personal best of 82.60 metres, improved this record in the final but was seriously threatened by Németh who trailed 3 centimetres behind from the second round on. Shayunou eventually finished fourth in 76.95 metres, a national junior record, and Turkmenistan and China too got new national junior records.
Javelin throw
John Robert Oosthuizen
 South Africa
83.07 CR Ari Mannio
 Finland
77.26 Roman Avramenko
 Ukraine
76.01 PB
Oosthuizen broke the championship record from 1996 of 79.78 metres in his second throw, and went unchallenged through the competition. New national junior records were also established for Tunisia, Serbia, Fiji (twice) and Paraguay.
Decathlon
Arkadiy Vasilyev
 Russia
8059 Yordanis García
 Cuba
7850 Jordan Vandermade
 New Zealand
7807
Vasilyev set a championship record as the 99.0 cm hurdles were used for the very first time. García finished behind his personal best in the tougher men's decathlon event, where he has 7880 points.
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Tezdzhan Naimova
 Bulgaria
11.28 Gabby Mayo
 United States
11.42 Carrie Russell
 Jamaica
11.42
World junior leader Alexandria Anderson finished sixth. The initial qualification round saw national junior records established for Singapore, Chad and the Marshall Islands.
200 metres
Tezdzhan Naimova
 Bulgaria
22.99 PB Vanda Gomes
 Brazil
23.59 SB Ewelina Klocek
 Poland
23.63 PB
Naimova, taking her second gold medal at the Championships, was virtually unchallenged. World junior leader Gabby Mayo finished sixth.
400 metres
Danijela Grgić
 Croatia
50.78 WJL Sonita Sutherland
 Jamaica
51.42 Nawal El Jack
 Sudan
51.67 SB
Sutherland was also the silver medalist of the 2004 edition. Two Zambian junior records were established in the qualifying rounds.
800 metres
Olga Cristea
 Moldova
2:04.52 SB Winny Chebet
 Kenya
2:04.59 PB Rebekah Noble
 United States
2:04.90
Cristea won the first World Championships title of any kind for Moldova.
1500 metres
Irene Jelagat
 Kenya
4:08.88 PB Mercy Kosgei
 Kenya
4:12.48 Yuriko Kobayashi
 Japan
4:12.88
During the competition, national junior records were set for Serbia (twice) and Eritrea.
3000 metres
Veronica Wanjiru
 Kenya
9:02.90 SB Pauline Korikwiang
 Kenya
9:05.21 Song Liwei
 China
9:06.35 PB
5000 metres
Xue Fei
 China
15:31.61 PB Florence Kiplagat
 Kenya
15:32.34 PB Mary Ngugi
 Kenya
15:36.82 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
Caroline Tuigong
 Kenya
9:40.95 CR Ancuța Bobocel
 Romania
9:46.19 AJR Mekdes Bekele Tadese
 Ethiopia
9:48.67
The winner ran barefoot. Bobocel successfully defended her silver medal from the 2004 edition. Additional national records were set by Latvian fourth-place finisher Poļina Jeļizarova as well as for Portugal, France and Algeria in the heats.
100 metres hurdles
Yekaterina Shtepa
 Russia
13.33 WJL Christina Vukicevic
 Norway
13.34 NJ Tiffany Ofili
 United States
13.37 PB
400 metres hurdles
Kaliese Spencer
 Jamaica
55.11 WJL Nicole Leach
 United States
55.55 Sherene Pinnock
 Jamaica
56.67 PB
Pinnock was also the bronze medalist in the 2004 edition.
10,000 metres walk
Liu Hong
 China
45:12.84 PB Tatyana Shemyakina
 Russia
45:34.41 Anamaria Greceanu
 Romania
46:45.67 PB
4 × 100 metres relay
 United States
Jeneba Tarmoh
Alexandria Anderson
Elizabeth Olear
Gabby Mayo
43.49  France
Johanna Danois
Emilie Gaydu
Joellie Baflan
Céline Distel
44.20  Jamaica
Naffene Briscoe
Anastasia Le-Roy
Carrie Russell
Schillonie Calvert
44.22 SB
The American team equalled their winning result from 2004. Calvert won her second bronze medal for Jamaica, having competed on the relay team in 2004 as well. National junior records for Norway and Slovenia as well as a South American junior record by Brazil were established in the heats.
4 × 400 metres relay
 United States
Jessica Beard
Brandi Cross
Sa'de Williams
Nicole Leach
3:29.01 WJL  Nigeria
Folashade Abugan
Ajoke Odumosu
Joy Eze
Sekinat Adesanya
3:30.84 AJ  Jamaica
Latoya McDermott
Sherene Pinnock
Sonita Sutherland
Kaliese Spencer
3:31.62 SB
Both Pinnock and Sutherland won relay bronze medals in 2004. The Nigerian team had already set an African junior record in the heats with 3:33.00 minutes after a sprint duel with Jamaica. The final also saw an Asian junior record by the Chinese team in fourth place.
High jump
Svetlana Radzivil
 Uzbekistan
1.91 NJ Zheng Xingjuan
 China
1.88 Annett Engel
 Germany
Yekaterina Yevseyeva
 Kazakhstan
1.84
Five athletes, among them a medal favorite Viktoria Leks, ended at 1.84 metres, two of whom shared the podium for the bronze medal.
Pole vault
Zhou Yang
 China
4.30 PB Tina Šutej
 Slovenia
4.25 NJ Vicky Parnov
 Australia
4.20
Reigning champion and favorite Lisa Ryzih exited early in the final after failing all three attempts at her opening height of 4.00 metres. The 2006 world junior leader, Valeriya Volik of Russia, finished fourth.
Long jump
Rhonda Watkins
 Trinidad and Tobago
6.46 Anika Leipold
 Germany
6.42 Zhang Yuan
 China
6.41
Triple jump
Kaire Leibak
 Estonia
14.43 WJL Sha Li
 China
14.01 PB Liliya Kulyk
 Ukraine
14.01 PB
Before the competition Leibak held the world junior leading mark with 13.96 metres, which was improved by Sha Li with 13.97 m in the qualification round. Leibak was in the lead throughout the final, but with 14.05 metres from the fourth round she was threatened by Sha and Kulyk, who both jumped 14.01 m in the fifth round. In the sixth round, however, both challengers failed to improve while Leibak jumped 14.43 metres, only 9 centimetres behind the world junior record. Patrícia Mamona in fourth place established a Portuguese junior record with 13.37 metres; a new Spanish junior record was also set in the final.
Shot put
Melissa Boekelman
 Netherlands
17.66 PB Denise Hinrichs
 Germany
17.35 Irina Tarasova
 Russia
17.11 PB
The shot put was the first final of the Championships. Simoné du Toit in fourth established a new African junior record with 16.95 metres.
Discus throw
Dani Samuels
 Australia
60.63 WJL Pan Saili
 China
57.40 SB Tan Jian
 China
56.09
With 60.22 metres from the first round, Samuels went unthreatened throughout the competition. Annelies Peetroons in fourth place set a new Belgian junior record.
Hammer throw
Bianca Perie
 Romania
67.38 CR Anna Bulgakova
 Russia
65.73 Hao Shuai
 China
64.26
Perie became the first World Youth champion from 2005 to win a gold medal in Beijing. The new championships record was an improvement of Marina Smolyachkova's 66.81 metres from 2004. Zalina Marghiev of Moldova was in bronze medal position until the final round.
Javelin throw
Sandra Schaffarzik
 Germany
60.45 CR Vira Rebryk
 Ukraine
57.79 NJ Marharyta Dorozhon
 Ukraine
57.68 PB
Reigning champion Vivian Zimmer, who held the previous championship record with 58.50 metres, finished in seventh place. Like in the men's javelin competition, the winner was never challenged.
Heptathlon
Tatyana Chernova
 Russia
6227 WJL Ida Marcussen
 Norway
6020 NJ Yana Panteleyeva
 Russia
5979
A close competition for the silver and bronze medals saw Marcussen prevail despite finishing behind Iryna Ilkevych of Ukraine in the 800 metres race. Ilkevych ended in fourth place with a national junior record of 5952 points. The winning score of 5868 from 2004 would only have been good enough for a fifth place in 2006.
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

An 800 metres win was the first major title for David Rudisha of Kenya.
Artur Noga took the 110 metres hurdles gold for Poland.
Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica won the 400 metres hurdles.

  *   Host nation (China)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Kenya67215
2 China*55717
3 United States45211
4 Russia43310
5 Estonia4004
6 Jamaica2158
7 Ethiopia2114
8 Australia2013
9 Bulgaria2002
 Trinidad and Tobago2002
11 Germany1225
12 France1203
13 Romania1113
14 Great Britain1045
15 Poland1012
16 Argentina1001
 Croatia1001
 Moldova1001
 Netherlands1001
 South Africa1001
 Uzbekistan1001
22 Canada0202
 Norway0202
24 Ukraine0156
25 Morocco0112
26 Brazil0101
 Cuba0101
 Ecuador0101
 Egypt0101
 Finland0101
 Hungary0101
 Iran0101
 Israel0101
 Nigeria0101
 Saudi Arabia0101
 Slovenia0101
37 Bahrain0022
 Japan0022
39 Greece0011
 Kazakhstan0011
 New Zealand0011
 Slovakia0011
 Sudan0011
 Uganda0011
Totals (44 nations)444445133

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,[2] 1350 athletes from 176 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.[3]

References

  1. "Taher Tareq Mubaraq (BRN) - Performances Annulled". IAAF.org. 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2006 Beijing CHN Aug 15-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 12 March 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
  3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015
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